Chapter 358
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Just as the old man finished speaking, Lin Xian barely caught a glimpse of the old man’s face when… the familiar white light descended once again without warning.
It consumed everything.
…
…
Whoosh!
Lin Xian sprang up straight from the bed in the high-end suite:
“Holy shit…”
He looked left and right, unable to find the familiar bedside clock.
Only then did he realize he wasn’t in his bedroom at home.
He got off the bed, picked up the phone that was charging on the desk, and checked the time:
00:42
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“This is reality.”Lin Xian let out a sigh of relief.
Just a moment ago, he suddenly remembered something the psychologist, Doctor Liu, had once said:
“If one day, you lose the reference to distinguish reality from dreams…
you know what will happen, right?”
“By then, you will be completely unable to tell reality from dreams.”
For so long before this.
He never took those words seriously, never believing that he would be unable to distinguish reality from dreams.
But just now in the dream, when he was shocked unconscious by the soldier behind him and woke up with a hood on his head.
At that instant, he truly had some difficulty telling them apart.
Was it the reality he woke up to?
Or an awakening within the dream?
Especially when he heard that old man say to him, “Now… I see you,” he was indeed a bit creeped out.
In the dream, it was a future world 600 years later.
It was impossible for anyone to recognize him.
Yet, the old man’s smile was chilling, as if he had found a treasure, attained an answer, solved a mystery that plagued him for ages.
Now…
I see you, when translated literally, means “Now…
I see you.”
In that context, it felt more like “Now…
I’ve found you.”
“This dream, it has been off from the start.”
Lin Xian paced around the vast high-end suite, beginning to sum up the dream he had just had, which was short in time yet rich in content.
With more than twenty years of experience with dreams.
Lin Xian knew very well.
His appearance in the future world was sudden, like popping out of a rock, or alternatively, appearing instantaneously on a plaza, a cobblestone path, upon grimy and foul-smelling earth.
He did not belong to that world 600 years in the future.
He was an outsider.
It was not right for anyone to know, or be aware that he would suddenly appear there.
“After all, I’m not even sure when I fall asleep and enter dreams.”
Sometimes Lin Xian would go to sleep at eight or nine, sometimes at eleven or twelve, and at the earliest, he would sleep at one or two in the afternoon.
When he fell asleep, that’s when he would enter dreams and appear in the future world, 600 years later.
No one could predict exactly when he would enter dreams; not even he could.
And in such a context…
Those dozens of soldiers holding guns were somehow lying in wait for him with precision.
“That means…”
“They might have started waiting there for me since noon, or even since morning, waiting for my arrival.
They not only knew the time I would enter dreams and time-travel, they also knew the exact spot where I would appear.”
This conclusion astounded Lin Xian.
How was this possible?
And thinking back to what that captain of the soldiers said while arresting him, uttering an absurd list of charges, which even included…
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Disrupting the space-time charge.
That is to say.
The opponents knew crystal clear that he was a space-time traveler!
“Completely exposed.”
Lin Xian frowned deeply.
It was an unprecedented crisis he had faced.
All signs indicated that the worst scenario had occurred.
He, on that day, August 28th, 2624—
[Had been targeted by enemies.]
And the so-called enemies.
Without a doubt, it was that old man who had last removed his hood.
Lin Xian closed his eyes.
He recalled the old man’s appearance in his mind…
He did not recognize the old man, the features and the stature were all very unfamiliar.
Compared to the elders of the real world, his skin was somewhat better, but after all, he was old, inescapably wrinkled, with some lines.
Huh?
Wait a minute.
Wrinkles!
Lin Xian suddenly spotted an oversight!
In the Second Dreamland, the Third Dreamland, and the Fourth Dreamland, humans had already mastered advanced genetic modification and aesthetic technology; the people in these three dreamlands all looked like sculptures, with skin as flawless as snow and as tender as a baby’s.
Such a withered old man appearing in the world 600 years later…
Did not fit in.
He was out of place.
“Which means…”
“This old man…
is also likely not from that time era!”
Thud.
Lin Xian stopped in his tracks.
He slid open the glass door leading to the balcony, stepped out of the room, and bathed in the moonlight of the Imperial Capital.
The time was swiftly approaching September.
It was the tail end of summer.
But the heat in the air never dissipated, as if intending to keep going until October before it would gradually cool down.
Yet, wrapped in the remnants of summer warmth, Lin Xian continuously felt the loss of a sense of safety.
He speculated.
This old man was very likely an “ancient from the old era” who came to 600 years later via a Hibernation Pod.
Zhao Yingjun, from the Third Dreamland, could have had plastic surgery to become young and beautiful.
But she did not do so.
Not just her, if it were Lin Xian, he wouldn’t opt for aesthetic technology to make himself look as handsome as a sculpture either.
Perhaps this was the “age mark” of the old era.
People of every era have their aesthetics, their convictions.
In the current era of 2023, only a minority accept plastic surgery and facial transformations; the vast majority would rather be ordinary-looking than undergo cosmetic procedures.